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Re: PHP Mail [message #170763 is a reply to message #170762]

Sun, 21 November 2010 16:15

The Natural Philosoph
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Robert Hairgrove wrote:
> The Magnet wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In this application the PHP scripts are running on one server, but the
>> postfix server is a different machine. I tried this Pear mail and
>> although it does send using a report SMTP server there are a few
>> things that I cannot seem to do:
>>
>> - Cannot seem to alter headers to send HTML email
>> - Recipient always has email appear as "undisclosed-recipients"
>>
>> Can anyone help? Is there a better / easier way to do this? We need
>> to send HTML emails. We tried PHPMailer and could not get it to work
>> at all, so, we are looking for another suggestion.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> Most of these extra mail libraries are overkill. Did you look at the PHP
> site documentation for the mail() function? There are some examples
> (perhaps contributed by 3rd parties) which show you how to send HTML
> emails. If you always use the same format, i.e. maybe with no additional
> attachments, it is pretty simple to roll your own function using the
> mail() function.
>
> Also, it is a good idea to read the RFC docs referenced in the PHP site
> to understand what is going on WRT email headers.

yes. php's mail functions is entirely adequate. But it will invoke the
local sendmail on the local machine: So that must needs be set up.

If its on linux, exim or postfix are relatively simple to configure.

IIRC on windows you have the option to forward to a smart host.

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		PHP Mail By: The Magnet on Sat, 20 November 2010 23:22
		Re: PHP Mail By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 21 November 2010 00:52
		Re: PHP Mail By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 21 November 2010 01:29
		Re: PHP Mail By: Robert Hairgrove on Sun, 21 November 2010 12:39
		Re: PHP Mail By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 21 November 2010 16:15
		Re: PHP Mail By: Michael Fesser on Sun, 21 November 2010 18:02
		Re: PHP Mail By: The Magnet on Sun, 21 November 2010 20:38
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